Star Wars was big at the con, storm troopers were everywhere.
Monday, August 11, 2008
Thursday, August 7, 2008
The Four Nobel Truths
The Four Nobel Truths
1. Life is sufferring.
2. Suffering has a cause and an effect.
3. Suffering can be overcomed by karma (action)
4. The karma to cease suffering is following the Eightway Path.
I've been struggling with the idea that was brought up while in my group therapy class. One person, who is very Eastern in thought stated that there are no accidents in our life, that our karma leads us to all disasters in our life. Of cousre this rather a blanket statement, there are acts of nature or God that we humans have no power over and what happens to children or war victims has nothing to do with their own humble karma. But there are some truth to that statement. I was reading through my journals and read how a woman at my yoga studio reported that a young school girl had been brutally rape just weeks before I was attacked near the same area I was also attacked at.
While doing my teacher's training there , we all were warned not to walk alone to are cars during the evening. And just a week before I was attacked a fellow male yoga teacher was robbed at knife point in the same alley I was attacked. Why, oh why didn't I listen?
It was a sunny, Sunday afternoon, and I should not had taken the short cut through the alley. But it was hot, high noon and I was exhausted. I thougt I would be safe but I should had been wised enough not to be tempted to take such a short cut. I was an easy mark for the two homeless men one grabbing me by my injured right arm, I was in too much pain pain to fight them off. Still, I should had known better.
Healing is taking a long time. I didn't want to go to the Comic Con but I was told that a way to being whole again I must take chances and go out of my comfort zone. So I went. I stayed the Hotel Del Coronado, a lovely place. I had a very quite corner room, so I never heard my neighbors take a shower on their noises at night but there was a hallway above my room so wherever people walked through the hallway to go to the room it sounded as if someone was breaking into my room. I didn't get much sleep but latley I rarely get much sleep. Still haunted by nightmares.
Bless you all for your kind words! They are a great comfort! Blessings & Love.
Greetings to fellow L.A. Woman Rachell
How Ironic that you were in San Diego that same weekend I was there. I love the Gaslight District but didn't visit there during my last visit. I'm still a little shell shock from my attack so I mostly took the ferry from Coraonado Island and spend my time in downtown at the convention then sipped cocktails on the terrace at the grand Hotel Del Coronado. Was a bit cool that week but still beautiful, love walking the beach at night. The hotel staff took good care of me.
Friday, August 1, 2008
Close Encounters of the third kind....
"It seems the only thing that you have inherited from your mother, is her natural ability to piss people off." Roberta Muldoon (The World According to Garp"The only natural talent I seem to been given is the ability to put my foot in my mouth and piss people off! No one seems to understand my rather dark sense of humor and the that a quote from Britney Spires "Oops I did it again!
On the registation day of the Comic Con , Wednesday, I went to the Marriot bar/lounge area to enjoy a drink while I waited for the floor doors to open. ( God bless the geeks of this world because although the groups were massive I got my con badge and stuff really quickly so I had time to kill before the floor open.) I was sitting enjoying my cocktail, when this white hair, old, thin man wearing a wrinkled shirt and shorts sat next to me. At first I was going to just ignored him , for being a rape survivor has made me withdrawn, reserved and weary of all strangers. But he was so warm, friendly and garrulous that he engaged me into a conversation. At first I wasn't aware that he was with the Comic Con let alone a feature artist there. Then he told me his name was Edward Campbell and that inner light bulb flashed in my my mind. "Oh, yes, Neil Gaiman has written about you in his blog!" He then told me that Neil Gaiman posted a photo of him on his blog when he was visiting Melborne. The man was just as sweet as can be, although he had no interest in me as a person, he never asked me what I did, or if I was married or asked any questions about me. He told me about how his over twenty year friendship with Neil Gaiman and all the books he wrote and how he wasn't exactly thrilled with the film production the film based on his book "From Hell". He mentioned he was married and he said his wife's name but he gave me so much information I didn't know if it was Anne or Alice or whatever. He was a enchanting , captivating speaker and I greatly enjoy our one sided conversation. So I wrote on his blog how much I enjoyed his conversation and asked why when Neil took a photo of him he didn't take a photo of his wife Alice or was it Anne. Next thing I read some blogger asking "who the fuck is Alice?" Sorry, that evening he gave me so much information I couldn't remember everything the man said! Damn! Well, he was so interesting an kind I went to Amazon and ordered his books. I had to input books by Eddie Campbell to pull them up. They should be a great read for he was a great man to chat to.
I hope I didn't get the sweet old man in trouble!
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